Glades County Detention Center Inmate Lookup

Glades County Detention Center Overview

The Glades County Detention Center, also known as the Glades County Jail Operations Center, is operated by the Glades County Sheriff's Office. It sits at 1297 East State Road 78 in Moore Haven, on the southwest side of Lake Okeechobee. The jail runs under the direct authority of the Sheriff. Day to day, it is supervised by the Chief Deputy and the correctional staff. The stated goal is a safe, secure, and humane setting for both staff and the people held there. The jail line is (863) 946-1600.

This facility holds a mix of people. It takes in local arrestees and pretrial detainees, those serving local jail sentences, and non-federal inmates who pay a $25 booking fee at intake. At the same address, it also holds federal and ICE detainees under contract. So the building works as both a county jail and the ICE-listed Glades County Detention Center. That dual role is why a single roster will not always find the person you are looking for.

Glades County Detention Center Capacity and Population

The current sheriff pages do not publish a rated bed capacity for the jail. Older outside material mentioned 440 beds when the facility opened in 2007, but that figure is not confirmed as a current count, so it should not be read as today's capacity. For population, the most reliable sourced numbers come from the Florida Department of Corrections county detention reports. These track average daily population for the local county jail.

The FDC county jail average daily population for Glades was 27 in February 2024, 32 in the June 2025 report, and 41 in October 2025. One thing matters here. The FDC-reported county jail figure counts the local detention population, not the larger detention-center population that may include ICE and federal contract detainees held at the same address. That gap is documented, so a single small number does not describe everyone in the building.

How to Look Up an Inmate at the Glades County Detention Center

The right tool depends on who is holding the person. For county custody, the Sheriff's Office runs an online roster called SmartWEB / JAIL View. That roster covers local arrestees and pretrial detainees. For immigration detainees, the search moves to the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. Designated federal prisoners show up in the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator. Sentenced state prisoners are not here at all. They are searched through the Florida Department of Corrections offender search, and they live next door at Moore Haven CRF.

The Corrections section of the sheriff site explains how this works. The inmate information page lays out the jail's authority, the booking fee, and intake basics in one place.

View the Glades County Sheriff's Office inmate information page for the official overview of detention center custody.

That page is the front door to the county roster and the other Glades County custody resources. To work the county roster step by step, follow this order.

1. Open the official SmartWEB / JAIL View page from the Sheriff's Office Inmate Search link.
2. Enter at least one search criterion, such as a last name or a booking date range. A fully blank search is not allowed.
3. Confirm the person is in Glades County custody by checking the Search For filter, set to Current Inmates Only for a live custody check.
4. Open the record to review status, booking date, and any other listed detail. Sort by Booking Date and Descending to surface recent bookings.

If the person should be in custody but does not appear, call the jail at (863) 946-1600. A new booking may not post to the roster right away. For an immigration hold, use the ICE locator instead, since the county roster does not cover ICE detainees on its own.

Glades County Detention Center Address and Contact

The detention center shares its campus and address with the Sheriff's Office. The same number reaches the jail information line and the custody staff who can confirm whether a person is held there.

Use the exact street address when you search a map. A query for a generic jail name can point you to the state prison at 1282 East State Road 78, which is a short distance away and easy to confuse with this building.

Booking and Intake at the Glades County Detention Center

When someone is brought to the jail, intake runs in a set order. First comes property intake. Money is deposited, and clothing and other items are inventoried. Then the person goes through a medical screening before any housing assignment. After that, staff complete the booking process and create the jail record. The Sheriff's Office describes this sequence directly on its booking pages.

A $25 booking fee applies at intake, but only to non-federal inmates. The fee is refundable. If the case is dismissed or the person is found not guilty, the inmate can supply court documents to the Sheriff's Office and the fee is returned. The fee does not apply to ICE or federal detainees.

People who do not bond out appear before a judge within the first 24 hours of arrest. At that first appearance, the judge explains the charges and sets the bond amount. The hearing can take place in person or by Poly Com video court, so not everyone stands before the judge in the same room. A booking record is the jail's intake file, and a first appearance is that first hearing, which is a fast check that custody is lawful.

Visiting Someone at the Glades County Detention Center

The jail has moved to video visitation through HomeWAV. You can visit remotely from a web browser or the HomeWAV mobile app, and on-site video visits run at the lobby as well. Visiting runs in three daily windows, seven days a week, in two-hour blocks. The schedule rotates by inmate location, so the day a given housing unit can be seen changes. Call ahead to confirm the day for that unit. There is no contact visitation under any circumstance, and every visitor needs a valid government photo ID.

The sheriff visitation page lays out the hours and the conduct rules in full.

See the Glades County Detention Center visitation page for the current HomeWAV hours and visitor rules.

The hours below match what the Sheriff's Office posts for on-site and remote video visits.

Legal visits for ICE detainees work on a separate track. Any ICE legal visitation, in person or virtual, on or after May 1, 2026 must be scheduled through ICE ERO eFile and the Detention Facility Appointment Scheduler. That rule is already in effect, so legal representatives should plan through the ICE channels rather than the jail's social visit system.

Mail, Phone, and Money at the Glades County Detention Center

Three things tend to come up together once someone is booked: how to write, how to talk, and how to send money. Each runs through a named vendor or rule at this jail. The Sheriff's Office sets out the commissary and deposit routes on its corrections pages.

Review the Glades County Detention Center commissary and deposit page for the current money and account options.

The table below sums up how mail, calls, and money move through the facility.

Mail format is the one area to verify by phone. The Sheriff's Office does not publish a fixed name and booking number layout in the pages reviewed, so call before you send anything. For money, remember the split: HomeWAV funds cover communication, while Keefe and Access Corrections handle commissary. Money orders are accepted by mail, but personal checks are not taken under any circumstance.

About the Glades County Detention Center

The jail keeps a zero-tolerance stance on sexual abuse and harassment under the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act. The Sheriff's Office frames its PREA work in five parts: Prevention, Intervention, Reporting, Treatment, and Investigation. Allegations that may involve a crime are referred to the State Attorney's Office. A PREA audit was completed on January 22, 2021, and the sheriff page lists no corrective action plans to date.

Third-party reports can be made in person, by phone, anonymously, or by mail to the Director of Detention Operations at (863) 946-1600. Because the same address also serves an ICE-DHS detention function, federal detainee concerns may route through DHS and ICE channels in addition to the jail's own reporting.

The detention center holds people before their cases resolve. Once sentenced to state prison, a person may transfer out of county custody and later appear in the FDC locator, often at the nearby Moore Haven Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility. For booking-record steps and the full roster how-to, the jail inmate records page covers more ground, and the Glades County inmate population hub ties the county, state, and federal searches together.

Visit the Glades County Detention Center ICE-DHS page for the immigration detention links and the ICE locator.

That page confirms the dual county and immigration role at the single 1297 SR 78 address. The PREA reporting page rounds out the conditions picture.

Open the Glades County Detention Center PREA reporting page for the audit status and reporting methods.

The page sets out the reporting routes and the completed audit date for the facility.